Un bacio tra le stelle. Come sono state individuate le onde gravitazionali

Though I was totally fascinated by this book, it isn't the one to read to find out everything you need to know about gravitational waves. Although Harry Collins does, in passing, mention aspects of the science and technology involved, his focus is to forensically examine the process by which a large Leggi tutto

True Confession: I only read half of this before it needed to go back to the library. I expected a book about gravity waves, what I got was a book about the sociological machinations of science. The manipulation of wording, the agreements of the scientific community, the checks and double checks... I Leggi tutto

I enjoyed reading Harry Collins work, Gravity’s Kiss . He is an insider within the physics community so he brings much detail to the narrative. Collins has written extensively on gravitational waves in the past and in Gravity’s Kiss he explores the role that LIGO played in finally detecting the first Leggi tutto

This is not a book about the science of gravitational waves, their theoretical origins, and subsequent first detection. No, this is a sociological study of the scientists and scientific process of the first observation of gravitational waves. In short, no specific gravitational science, but a narrat Leggi tutto

Brilliant sociologists exploration of the 2015 detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO consortium. This is the finale in Collin's work on scientists at work detecting gravitational waves. Collins spent more than forty years embedded in the gravitational wave science community, his earlier books Leggi tutto

Wow, hard to believe this author thinks he's a serious science writer. My advice, if you find a science book on a technical science topic and the author is described as a sociologist, put the book back on its shelf. More advice to the author, if you're going to make frequent reference to all your ot Leggi tutto

Really disappointing read, at least for me. This wasn't so much a book about gravitational wave theory, or astrophysics, or even the science and engineering behind the interferometers, as it was a collection of emails and recorded phone conversations and nearly incomprehensible graphs and charts tha Leggi tutto

An interesting read, as long as Collins sticks to narrating the inner workings of the LIGO-virgo collaboration. When he speculates about what physics is or should be, he demonstrates a surprising lack of understanding of the why's and how's of scientific procedures. Make sure to skip past his rambli Leggi tutto

Short but great introduction to GWs topic.